From Crisis to Catastrophe

MIGNON DUFFY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections of paid care work with gender, race, citizenship, and class inequalities. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and author of Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2011). AMY ARMENIA is Professor of sociology at Rollins College. She has published work on child care, care work, and family leave in Work and Occupations, the Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Research. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015). KIM PRICE-GLYNN is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research addresses gender, paid and unpaid care work. She has published in Gender & Society; Gender, Work & Organization; and Work, Employment & Society. She is author of Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (New York University Press, 2010).

Introduction 
MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN

PART ONE Crisis
1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future
JOAN C. TRONTO
2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime 
JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH
3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration 
ITO PENG
4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States 
ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH
5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States 
LAURA MAULDIN
6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 
PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN


PART TWO Catastrophe
7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America
MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI
8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care
Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
VALERIA ESQUIVEL
9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers 
PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN
10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures
ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA
11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic 
KEN CHIH-YAN SUN


PART THREE Aftermath
12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic 
FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD
13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response 
SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO
14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis 
ORLY BENJAMIN
15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic 
THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER


PART FOUR Transformation
16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada 
CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD
17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 
CINDY L. CAIN
18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots 
HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH
19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework 
KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD
20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States 
JULIE KASHEN
Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences 
MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN

Acknowledgments
References 
Notes on Contributors 
Index